Sutra Cover
1590–1599
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings
- Dimensions
- 33 × 11.8 cm (13 × 4 5/8 in.); Repeat: 10.2 × 10.8 cm (4 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)mingEast AsianChinese (culture or style)Textilepaper (fiber product)weavingasian